Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 89
With that the man turned his bridle into the wood, smote the horse with his spurs as hard as he could, and galloped off, leaving the knight alone.
Who acts: man · What happens: turn, smote, gallop off, leave, spur · To what, where: bridle, wood, horse, knight
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 turned | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bridle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smote | punct |
| 12 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turned | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smote | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 spurs | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 smote | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 hard | advmod |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 smote | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 could | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 could | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hard | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 galloped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 galloped | cc |
| 25 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 galloped | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leaving | punct |
| 28 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 galloped | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 knight | det |
| 30 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leaving | obj |
| 31 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 28 leaving | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the man | man's bridle | the wood | with that | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme into wood=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | smote | infinitive | the man not said here | the horse | with man's spurs; hard property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gallop off | past | the man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | the man not said here | the knight | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | |||
| 5 | spur | man | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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